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    BRIGHT & Beautiful

    Mar 02, 2022 5 minutes

    Perhaps the most uplifting of all garden flowers, tulips dazzle with their endless shapes, spectrum of colour and easy-going nature. Requiring very little attention, they reward tenfold every spring with a spectacular display that is guaranteed to lift mood and soul and inject energy and vibrancy into every inch of outside space.

    Celebrated by designers, plant specialists, garden lovers and leading florists alike these flowering bulbs are highly prized for their organic twisting forms and clarity of colour. “We have been planting tulips for over three decades, each year more vibrant than the last,” says Marylyn Abbott, a renowned Australian garden designer based at West Green House Gardens in Hampshire. “Tulips rescue us from the doldrums and signify the end of a bleak, grey winter with their satin sheen and vibrant colour.”

    HIGHLY PRIZED

    Having been introduced to Europe towards the end of the 1590s from the Ottoman

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